The Empire Club AddressesThere is only one Canadian Speakers’ Forum of Record. Every Empire Club of Canada event delivers a stimulating, often scintillating experience consistently rich with ideas, ideals, insight, and engagement about some aspect of our lives and world.http://speeches.empireclub.org/atomThe Empire Club Addresseshttp://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/EmpireClub/Graphics/atomtile2_ECC_s_104.png2009-07-16T09:05:46.582Z9120
Annual Financial Forum
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Annual Financial Forum
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Jeffrey Waldman:
The fixed income market. A recap of some fixed-income highlights from last year. Our current level of interest rates in historical perspective. Two themes that will dominate bond markets over the coming years. An outlook for this year. A potential movie sequel to watch for...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62851/data
Waldman, Jeffrey; Sterling, William; Joseph, Ian
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:05:46.582Z
Financial Sector Regulation: Partnering for Success
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Financial Sector Regulation: Partnering for Success
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The love-hate relationship between the regulator--OSFI--and the institutions they regulate and supervise. Why that is so. Good regulation as an important contributor to public confidence. What the speaker has been saying since becoming Superintendent and reactions to it. Challenging some of...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62836/data
Le Pan, Nicholas
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:05:44.292Z
Financial Services Council of Canada
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Financial Services Council of Canada
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The Financial Services Council of Canada: Its Origins and Mandate. Last decade of extraordinary change in the industry worldwide. Factors that have reshaped the industry. The four principal factors. Results of these forces of change. The formation of the Financial Services Council of Canada...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62740/data
Daniels, Mark R.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:05:28.899Z
A New Mandate for OSFI
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A New Mandate for OSFI
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An explanation of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Canada's financial-sector institutions. OSFI as a legislative mandate. How the mandate, passed into law in 1996, has driven the activities of OSFI. How the OSFI has been fundamentally transformed as a result of...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62715/data
Palmer, John R.V.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:05:24.507Z
Canada's 1997 Budget
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Canada's 1997 Budget
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The current Federal Government's fourth budget. One overriding goal: the need to build both a stronger economy and a stronger society. A plan in place since this government took office; that plan acted upon, and built, in every one of the budgets. Four key elements of the plan. Establishing...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62582/data
The Honourable Paul Martin
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:05:03.379Z
The Outlook for 1965
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The Outlook for 1965
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Mr. Moore
Some outlooks and a few words about the speaker's views of the U.S. economy in 1965. Some predictions about 1965. Another year of economic expansion. The circumstances under which growth could continue. Favourable factors in 1965. Some problems, similar to those being experienced...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62559/data
Moore, George S.; Currie, William M.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:04:59.621Z
Some Canadian Problems
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Some Canadian Problems
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The attitude of the railways, particularly that of the C.P.R., towards the City of Toronto. Sources of conflict between the City and the Companies. The origins of the difficulties of 1913 and 1923. The agreement which constitutes a legal obligation upon the Grand Trunk Railway and its...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62515/data
Beatty, Edward W.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:04:52.883Z
The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate
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The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate
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The problem of semantics in terms such as "free market system," "capitalism," "socialism," "free enterprise." The "mixed economy" that exists in Canada. Comments on the assertion by the Prime Minister announcing the federal spending cuts that Canada had entered "a new economic era" and that...http://speeches.empireclub.org/62003/data
Pearson, Gerald E.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:31.847Z
Alternatives for a Free Society
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Alternatives for a Free Society
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A speech of enquiry, addressing what choices we have, in Trudeau's words: "…as a free people responsible for our own destiny and capable of shaping our own future." Terms and definitions for "free market system" and "mixed economy." Response to what the Prime Minister has said. Agreement,...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61995/data
McIvor, Donald K.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:30.518Z
Free Enterprise in Canada
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Free Enterprise in Canada
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Post-election speech. Short review of the election results. Prospects of the Social Credit Party of Canada outside of Quebec. Canada's economic problems as the main one. Regional and provincial disparities. Solutions as proposed by the Social Credit Party. Economic roles of government,...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61965/data
Caouette, Réal
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:25.972Z
The Future is Not What it Used to Be
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The Future is Not What it Used to Be
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An examination of some of the "major characteristics of change that will face Canada and the world in the 1980s." The economic future of the Western industrial countries is not optimistic in the medium-term outlook. Basic problems facing policy makers are "the high cost of unemployment and...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61958/data
Baird, Charles F.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:24.753Z
Crossing The 100 Billion Dollar Mark
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Crossing The 100 Billion Dollar Mark
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A complete review of Canada's current economic condition. An optimistic forecast for 1972. Canada's gross national product for the first time to cross the 100 billion dollar mark. A review of highlights of business trends over the past few years; also reasons for continuing problems of...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61935/data
Smith, Dr. Arthur J.R.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:21.820Z
The Canada Development Corporation
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The Canada Development Corporation
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The Canada Development Corporation and some background as to its origins in the mid-1950s. Walter Gordon's Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects. The issue of non-resident ownership and control of the Canadian economy. Changes in Canada's trade and balance of payments. The growth...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61939/data
Hampson, H. Anthony
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:21.768Z
America Besieged
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America Besieged
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A joint meet of The Empire Club of Canada and the Toronto Society of Financial Analysis.
Canadian-American relations, particularly economic. Provocative statement by President Nixon that Japan (not Canada) was America's No. 1 trading partner. Apologies to Prime Minister Trudeau. America not...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61930/data
Rinfret, Dr. Pierre A.
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:20.303Z
The Future Is Not What It Was
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The Future Is Not What It Was
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Canada's economic prospects for 1994. The old ways don't work anymore. Uncertainty among Canadians. Why the Canadian experience is what it is. Uses Domtar as an example of the broader Canadian experience. How Domtar succeeded as an analogy to how Canada can succeed in the new global...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61916/data
Desjardins, Pierre
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:18.699Z
Beyond Bureaucracy: Governing for the Nineties
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Beyond Bureaucracy: Governing for the Nineties
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Challenges to governments to do things in new ways in answer to a changing and dynamic world, especially the electronic revolution. What recession and unemployment means for Canadians. New opportunities. A perspective told from the viewpoint of an Eastern Canadian politician now seeing...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61915/data
Savage, The Hon. John
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:17.925Z
An Amateur Looks at the Canadian Economy
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An Amateur Looks at the Canadian Economy
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The Geneva Trade Agreements. The accomplishment of 26 nations emerging from a meeting with an agreement. An agreement broadly based on there being no discriminations in trade between those 26 countries. Some excerpts from the agreement, with explication. A further meeting going on right...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61887/data
Smith, Arthur Le Roy
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:13.460Z
The Work of the Central Bank
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The Work of the Central Bank
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A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto.
Two recent Annual Reports published by the Bank of Canada to explain what the Bank was doing and why; also press statements on the six occasions that the Bank Rate was changed. The submission to the Royal...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61883/data
Rasminsky, Louis
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:12.737Z
The More Exciting Canada
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The More Exciting Canada
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A review of Canada's recent history and society, particularly in terms of the economy. The new exciting Canada which "likely contains much opportunity to arrange a more interesting and deserving place to live." What it is not a time for. Time, rather, to "get it together." Canada's...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61863/data
Blair, S. Robert
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:09.137Z
What's Behind the Lemming Urge?
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What's Behind the Lemming Urge?
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A belief that we in Canada are "trading a system, a mixed-economy system that gives us all an unprecedented freedom, for a system we fought a hot and cold war to escape." What our free enterprise system has given us. The need for the control of self-restraint. A brief history of the...http://speeches.empireclub.org/61842/data
Mackasey, The Honourable Bryce
Empire Club of Canada
2009-07-16T09:03:05.309Z